general

Very few people have had success while chasing in the Plains this year… it’s truly been one of the worst years for Plains storm chasing. April had a lot of tornadoes, but most of them occurred in the Southeast outside of prime chasing territory.

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Been too exhausted this week to get image/video processing done, and I have two weekend shifts this weekend… maybe I’ll get around to it on Sunday?

Recharging the battery today, but tomorrow I’ll get on posting pictures and video that I got during the last two weeks.

The 98% forecast for at least one tornado I made for Wednesday was a bit fool-hardy, but I was feeling pretty good after hitting the tornadic cell in South Dakota two days prior. Had storms formed along the dryline in Kansas, I’m confident we would have bagged a tornado. Just about everyone busted on Wednesday, so I’m not particularly disappointed. We still did pretty darn good given the circumstances during the chasecation, and I did enjoy visiting the Plains for the first time. I got to see a lot of TX, OK, KS, NE and SD along with driving and/or chasing in MD, VA, TN, AR, MO, IL, IN, OH, WV and PA. 15 states… not bad.

Now I get to wait for tornadoes to come back to the East Coast… looks like I might be waiting for awhile.

Here’s a run-down of select Mid-Atlantic highs and records for yesterday in Temp (Record, Year) form (all degrees Fahrenheit):

DCA: 80 (81, 1989)
IAD: 79 (80, 1989)BWI: 81 (80, 1989)

MRB: 79 (83, 1927)RIC: 84 (83, 1927)ORF: 83 (82, 1908)

Baltimore, Richmond and Norfolk all came in one degree above their previous record. Reagan and Dulles failed to reach their records by one degree, and Martinsburg came up four degrees short of their record.